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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

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Object groups & device groups should not be allowed to be deleted, if a policy uses that group.

How it works currently : Upon deleting a device/object group, the associated policy also gets deleted. How should it work: When trying to delete a device/object group that is associated with a policy, an error/warning should be thrown to the user....
24 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

Request for ec2 permissions be added: DescribeInstances permission to be provided for all AWS linked accounts, which would be needed to determine whether a given instance was explicitly terminated.

The client was experiencing an issue with the recommendations that Cloudability shows. In the Optimize section there is a subsection called Rightsizing, which is where we can see the optimization recommendations based on the resources we have in t...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Workload Optimization (Rightsizing) 1 Functionality already exists

Adding Front Side Protocol to monitoring by Instana IBM DataPower sensor

Instana provides monitoring of Multi-Protocol Gateway. But we need to know the status of Front Side Protocol eg. HTTP Handler of the Gateway. Knowing the status (up/down) is very important. Please see attachment.
9 days ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Submitted

Generate and make available Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) eAssembly image for use to deploy SevOne products

During an evaluation with a customer for possibly cloud migration options we had looked at AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI. OCI is currently the one that based on initial investigation and capabilities for our customers needs. This is in response to the B...
15 days ago in SevOne / Cloud 0 Future consideration

Editable Tables: auto-size the 'Find' pop-up window when searching for values in a drop-down list

When a user uses the 'Find' option in a drop-down selection of an Editable table, the size of the pop-up window is fixed. It would be great if this could be auto-sized based on the number of columns available to give users a better experience. See...
18 days ago in Apptio / Usability/UX 0 Submitted

1yr performance graphs

Expand time range for the largest selectable timespan to one year in the user interface. This allows customer's operations team to see long term performance and capacity trends. The yearly graph should have 365 daily datapoints which will speed th...
3 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Under review

Please add Terraform no-code provisioning API to Concert Workflows

If we had the ability to provison/request no code/low code modules from this Terraform API inside of Concert, then it would mask the complexity that currently exists in Terraform, and make Terraform much easier to adopt. Here's the API: https://de...
4 days ago in Rapid Infrastructure Automation 0 Under review

Cost (Amortized) metric/cost basis option to be added in Business Mappings details page

Customer uses Cost(Amortized) basis in most of the reports to gain cost visibility for cloud commitment and their allocation to the time and place they are consumed. On organize > Business mapping, when we click on a business mapping to view th...
4 days ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Support the flow from Java client application direct to IMS Connect

Java client application making a direct connection to IMS Connect (Z application is Cobol on IMS which then goes to Db2)
7 days ago in Instana / IBM Z 0 Submitted

Consider maximum utilization during POD startup in addition percentile value for the given observation period for memory limit scaling to prevent out-of-memory kills during POD startup

Some POD have a utilization peak during startup. The percentile-based approach may lead to not considering this peak or if the POD isn't restarted during the observation period this peak is not considered. Turbonomic may recommend to scale down th...